Manager, Strategic NPI Manufacturing

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Summary:
To identify, standardize, deploy NPI best practices, among businesss units (BU) and factories, to align NPIs with business goals. Ensure success launch and flawless ramp of critical NPI programs from NPI to production in terms of product quality and time to market.

Responsibilities:

Support on the strategic manufacturing direction

NPI standardization on best practices development

Escalation for support from BU: PM and engineering

Flawless transition from NPI kick off (KO) to ramp per plan

Monitoring of program progress for any stoppers and adnormality

Proper execution on the phase / gate review/exit with defined gate review meeting

Ensure critical program major milestones happening in factories through on site witness

Hands on support with local MSR for any immediate risk mitigation

Deployment and execution of MRM process

Line start readiness review

Process qualification

Jig and Fixture Readiness

Tester readiness

DFM/DFT review and JIRA log/status tracking

Build Report readiness and review

Identifing further improvement opportunities on existing processes

• BU PDP process
• Ops MRM process
• Factory NPI process
• Material driven process
• DFM/DFT process
• Shift left
• Document standardization of daily communication tools for NPI build execution within fatory:
• NPI program master list: include the detailed information on official kicked off NPI, team members from factory/BU and phases timeline etc
• Factory Build plan: align the start/end plan with all the functional support like SMT, Manual insertion and casing, F5/F10a and full blast etc
  

Experience:

• Bachelor in manufacturing, mechanical or industrial engineering
• More than 10 years related experience in factories
• Project leadership, ability to direct actions of others to meet customer requirements.
• Able to work independently with little instruction/oversight.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work in Fast-changing dynamic environment
• Frequent travel to other locations for operational support is expected.